Chapter 6 – First Evolution: An Undead Who Chooses Her Path
I sat with my back against the cracked wall of my little hideout—a small room in the basement of a mall that might've once been a storage closet. The system screen still glowed faintly in front of me.
Evolution Available
Choose an evolution path:
Medium Zombie
Body reinforced. Basic zombie abilities doubled. No major change in appearance, but durability and reflexes increase significantly.
Low-Rank Ghoul
Evolution toward a fast and feral predator. Focuses on speed and agility. Appearance becomes more terrifying.
Lesser Vampire
Unstable path. Grants a small bonus to healing and blood manipulation. However, due to the undead body, effects are limited. Appearance becomes more humanlike, but the bloodlust aura intensifies.
I stared at the options. Choices that—strangely—felt like they were about to determine my entire life path. Even though I was a zombie. A walking corpse. But... maybe exactly because I wasn't human anymore, this choice might give me direction.
Ghoul was tempting. Lesser Vampire sounded cool. But...